Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

I don't really have a favoured solution, as of now, other than not using predictive typing.

I can see that Minuum works well using Bayes to predict a certain english word given the user input.

If you guys generate/use a language model for other languages that would give us around the same accuracy/prior probability as the english model, then I think it shouldn't be a problem.

Having quick settings and options that you can setup and choose which languages to include in the prior probability.

Being able to quickly turn off/turn a language, add/remove languages to the priori, etc.



We do have English, German French, Spanish, and Italian now actually, but the experience of switching between them could be improved.


This might not work at all but I wonder how it would work if you supplied it with a "mixed" language model. That is, a language model based around a person using multiple languages interchangably on the fly, simultaneously, instead of doing this modal switching stuff that causes so many headaches.


Given it's the name, I understand that one of the main objectives of your keyboard is to save space. However an option to simply stack two or three boards for those who could compromise screen space for multiple languages would be nice.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: